A double dune forest might be the answer for how to protect a post-Sandy Rockaway. Walter Meyer, an urban designer and the Founding Principal of Brooklyn-based Local Office Land Architecture, has proposed a test dune system for the peninsula. More...

Longtime Rockaway resident Sabino “Sam” J. Berardino celebrates his 90th birthday on Saturday, May 11th. Rockaway to his roots, he was born in Arverne on Beach 72nd Street. He went to PS 114 in Belle Harbor and Far Rockaway High School. More...

The Rockapulco Running Series’ next event will be changing its date and changing its name. The Mother’s Day Half Marathon, originally scheduled for Saturday, May 11th at 9 a.m., will now be sprinting to June 15th at 8 a.m. More...

Beatrice Koeppel, a school nurse and Department of Health clinic nurse, died on March 1st at age 97. A Neponsit resident for 70 years, Koeppel was the editor and a columnist for the PS 114 PTA bulletin and a member of Temple Beth-El. More...

It opened on a beautiful cool, fall day in 2005 as a remembrance to those who were lost in the September 11th, 2001 terror attacks. But since October it has been closed as a result of damages by Sandy. More...

More than 20 non-profit organizations are hosting a mammoth job fair as part of an effort to help people find work in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. The “Post Sandy Job Fair” will be held on Tuesday, May 14th, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. More...

If The Wave were The Onion, the satirical newspaper, then we would’ve run the headline Mormons Declare Beer Exception and then run a story about how the high priests in Salt Lake City came to view Rockaway as a particularly tough nut to crack a More...

Do you love the ferry? Well, you should consider contacting City Councilman Eric Ulrich and Congressman Gregory Meeks and ask them to lobby the City now about keeping it. You have to do more than wish that it will stay. More...

Riis Park was named for Jacob Riis - a journalist who shone a bright light on the miserable living conditions of the poor. He’d be aghast now to learn his name was attached to anything so wretched as Riis Park. More...